An arabicspeaking muslim american, a patriot, a hero. Controversial academic norman finkelstein is a compelling documentary subject idiosyncratic, brutally honest and fiercely loyal to his ideals. The german historian hans mommsen disparaged the first edition as a most trivial. It is pitchblack, and one only hears finkelstein, who eventually fades in, inflecting and deemphasizing select words, offering the right pauses, then ending it all on a smirk. Norman finkelstein 1953 is an american political scientist and historian whose work focuses on the history of the palestinians and zionism.
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Watch american radical the trials of norman finkelstein sd. Norman finkelsteins the holocaust industry and the. May 17, 2016 norman finkelsteins the holocaust industry and the fight to make all suffering count. Following are excerpts from an interview with american political scientist norman finkelstein, which aired on future tv on january 20, 2008.
David ridgen and nicolas rossiers docu on norman finkelstein, american radical, promises to prove as controversial as the man himself. With musa abuhashhash, nidal barham, noam chomsky, alan m. He is a graduate of binghamton university and received his ph. The trials of norman finkelstein legendas portuguese br. Norman gary finkelstein born december 8, 1953 is an american political scientist, activist and author. American radical is the probing, definitive documentary about american academic norman finkelstein.
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A devoted son of holocaust survivors, an ardent critic of israel and us middle east policy, finkelstein has been steadfast at the centre of many intractable controversies, including his denial of tenure at depaul university. Radical is only a description, as finkelstein explains in the film, of someone seeking radical justice in a radically unjust world. His parents are victims of the concentration camp so he feels entitled even more to not accept a kind of cultural and social imposition and dictatorship, denouncing all the abuses allowed to a part of the jewish community. He also a well known advocate of hezbolah, a shiite islamic militant group and political party based in lebanon. It has been screened at amsterdams idfa, torontos hot docs, and more than 40 other national and international venues.